Gemini IV Auction, January 8, 2008, Lot 492, 
sold for US$ 16,000 

Carus. (282-283 AD). Gold aureus (4.34 g). Lyons, AD 282 AD. 
IMP C M AVR CARVS P F AVG, bust laureate, draped, cuirassed 
right, seen from front 
PROVIDENTIA AVG, Providentia standing left, holding globe 
and transverse sceptre. 
Bastien, Suppl. II, 442a, pl. XI; Calico 4271a. Cf RIC 32; Sear 12147.

Very rare: apparently only the second recorded Lyons 
aureus of this type. The specimen, cited by Bastien and 
Calico, is Leu 65, 21–22 May 1996, lot 470 = Tkalec, 28 
October 1994, lot 315. 

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